Anyone who can put together a sumptuous menu will consider themselves perfectly happy. People who are hungry and have nothing to eat will have all their desires fulfilled if they can feast on just one day a year.
Any smooth talker will be regarded as a messenger of truth. Then you will be “someone” if you know how to provide for all the needs of your family.
It will be a very difficult ordeal. But in fact, we've already come to this point. Carrying out a wife and two children is now such a burden that you no longer even want to get married.
The following prediction describes what will happen when the whole population has thus been poisoned by the poison of the Kali Age.
Whether he is a pure and intelligent man like the wise scholar, an administrator leader or a warrior, a trader or a peasant, a manual worker or a tramp, it does not matter, whoever succeeds in obtaining the most votes in the elections will seize of power.
On the old days, the system was that only a leading administrator could occupy the royal throne, and not a wise scholar, merchant, or laborer. But today, in the age of Kali, there is no longer either an executive director or a wise scholar.
Democracy has been established. So anyone can become a head of state if they can muster enough votes in favor of them in an election, one way or another. Even if he is a proud rascal, he will nevertheless be able to occupy the supreme and glorious post of head of state.
The Lord gives a description of these leaders:
the rulers will oppress the citizens so much that they will abandon their families and their possessions to head for the hills and forests.
Thus the men who obtain a post in the government by the system of votes are, for the most part, only ambitious upstarts whose only concern is to exploit the people. It is easy to see, in truth, that each year the government raises taxes or various increasingly heavy taxes, and that all the money which it collects thus goes to line the pockets of all this scoundrel, while the citizens carry on. to languish under the same conditions, this is true of all governments.
People will be harassed until the day they want to leave everything, their family life, their wives and their property, to take refuge in the hills or in the depths of the woods. However, this phenomenon is also well known today.
In summary, the great sage Sukadeva Gosvami compares the age of kali to an ocean where vice and evil reign supreme in many forms and which no one can overcome, just as it would be futile even for the most skilful swimmer, wanting to cross the Atlantic.